Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette to learn sentence

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Staff The Canadian Press

WATCH ABOVE: Alexandre Bissonnette, who pleaded guilty in the 2017 mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque, arrives ahead of sentencing. He will find out if he will receive concurrent or consecutive sentencing in the first-degree murder of six men and the attempted murder of six others.

Huot is ruling how long Bissonnette spends in prison before he is eligible for parole.

Judge Huot says he has a 246 page sentence. Won’t read it entirely today. Bissonnette is moved to the witness stand… and is now standing up as the judge begins to read. Huot says this crime will be forever written in blood in the history of Quebec City, the province and Can.

Bissonnette, 29, pleaded guilty last March to six counts of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder after he walked into the mosque at the Islamic Cultural Centre during evening prayers on Jan. 29, 2017 and opened fire.